GRN 7203 Psychiatric Mental Health Conditions and Evidence-Based Interventions Across the Lifespan
This comprehensive course delves into the dynamic field of psychiatric mental health, exploring the spectrum of conditions and therapeutic interventions across various stages of life. Through an interdisciplinary lens, students will gain a nuanced understanding of mental health challenges affecting individuals from infancy to old age. Students will develop interventional tools/skills to provide holistic, evidence-based care related to mental illness across the lifespan. Students will examine primary prevention, health promotion, disease identification and management, and therapeutic interventions. The course integrates health assessment and differential diagnostic reasoning for managing psychiatric mental health disorders. This course will also address the role of the PMHNP as it relates to ethical and legal responsibilities, including scope of practice concerns in multiple settings. Students will explore concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social determinants of health.